Penalty Method for a Class of Differential Hemivariational Inequalities with Application.

In this paper, we consider a penalty method for a class of differential hemivariational inequalities in reflexive Banach spaces, governed by a set of constraints. First, we recall the existence and uniqueness result of the differential hemivariational inequality. Further, we introduce a penalized problem without constraints and we prove that, as a penalty parameter tends to zero, the solution of the original inequality can be approached to the solution of the penalized problem. Finally, we illustrate our results by an example of a contact problem for which our abstract results can be applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]